About me
Martin Blach, born in Vienna 1964, studied at the University of Toronto as well as Vienna, graduating 1988 with a master in business adminsitration. Starting his career as management assistent as well as Account Manager at Young & Rubicam Vienna, he came to Hamburg in 1990 to work as Account Director at Team BBDO. From 1192 to 2004 he worked in various positions at FCB Worldwide Germany (until 1997 Wilekns GmbH). At first Management Supervisor, he became Managing Director in 1194 and was promoted to president of FCB Wilkens Group of Companies in 1997. From 2000 he took on the role as CEO and member of the FCB Worldwide Board NY until he came to Zum goldenen Hirschen in 2004. Under his guidance as CEO and partner, the network of the owner-led Hirschen Group was build up. Besides Zum goldenen Hirschen, part of the Hirschen Group are the advertising agency Freunde des Hauses, the multi-channel-agency ressourcenmangel, the strategy consultancy Deer Hunter, the e-commerce agency TraDeers e-commerce, iDeers Consulting – a consultancy for digital questions of the economic system – as well as the politics consultancy 365 SHERPAS – Corportate Affairs and Policy Advice. The agency group, with locations in Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Dresden, Stuttgart, Munich and Vienna, has tripled in size of the last years. About 400 employees working on more than 70 clients achieve a yearly billing of 250 Mio. Euro.